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Milking a spherical cow: Toy models in neuroscience

European Journal of Neuroscience, Volume 60, Issue 10, Page 6359-6374, November 2024.
Highly idealised models have long played a role in physics, valued not for their empirical accuracy but for their ability to clarify conceptual puzzles, foster tool development, and suggest new directions. We argue that the theoretical development of neuroscience could likewise benefit from such a strategy. After briefly reviewing the use of toy models
Randall D. Beer, Ann‐Sophie Barwich, Gabriel J. Severino   +2 more
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Science-based Metaphysics: On Some Recent Anti-metaphysical Claims

Philosophia Scientiæ, 2015
This paper focuses on the debate concerning whether and, if at all, in what way metaphysics should be accepted alongside science. It examines some recent objections levelled, among others, by Bas Van Fraassen against metaphysics as an intelligible and ...
Matteo Morganti
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Indifference, Indeterminacy, and the Uncertainty Argument for Saving Identified Lives

Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 41, Issue 3, Page 480-497, July 2024.
ABSTRACT In some cases where we are faced with a decision of whether to prioritize identified lives over statistical lives, we have no basis for assigning specific probabilities to possible outcomes. Is there any reason to prioritize either statistical or identified lives in such cases?
Eric Gilbertson
wiley   +1 more source

Naturalizing skepticism

Metaphilosophy, Volume 55, Issue 3, Page 301-315, July 2024.
Abstract Naturalism, construed as the idea that philosophy should be continuous with science, is a highly influential view. Its consequences for epistemology, however, are rather odd. Many believe that naturalized epistemology allows eschewing traditional skeptical challenges.
Marc Jiménez‐Rolland
wiley   +1 more source

The psychopathology of metaphysics: Depersonalization and the problem of reality

Metaphilosophy, Volume 55, Issue 1, Page 3-30, January 2024.
Abstract According to a common philosophical intuition, the deep nature of things is hidden from us, and the world as we know it through perception and science is, just like a dream, shadows, or a computer simulation, somehow shallow and lacking in reality.
Alexandre Billon
wiley   +1 more source

Astroparticle physics, a constructive empiricist account

Science & Philosophy, 2019
Astroparticle physics is an interdisciplinary field embracing astronomy, astrophysics and particle physics. In a recent paper on this topic (2012), Brigitte Falkenburg defended that only scientific realism can make sense of it and that realist beliefs ...
Alessio Gava
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Bas Van Fraassen y la Ley de Hardy-Weinberg: una discusión y desarrolo de su diagnóstico

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2008
O objetivo deste trabalho é discutir e desenvolver o diagnóstico que efetua van Fraassen (1987, p. 110) da lei de Hardy-Weinberg, de acordo coo qual esta: 1) não pode ser considerada uma lei a ser utilizada como un axioma da teoria genética de ...
Pablo Lorenzano
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Common-Sense Realism and the Unimaginable Otherness of Science

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2007
Bas van Fraassen endorses both common-sense realism — the view, roughly, that the ordinary macroscopic objects that we take to exist actually do exist — and constructive empiricism — the view, roughly, that the aim of science is truth about the ...
Bradley Monton
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Representation and Perspective in Science

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2007
The world science describes tends to have a very strange look. We can’t see atoms or force fields, nor are they imaginable within visualizable categories, so neither can we even imagine what the world must be like according to recent physical theories ...
Bas C. van Fraassen
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A Contextual Account of Explanation in Logic

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology
Recent approaches to the epistemology of logic, under the title of “anti-exceptionalism about logic”, explicitly adopt what is asserted to be the method of theory choice and the correct account of explanation in the sciences.
Evelyn Erickson
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